Warehouse-truck.



W. M. BOENSGH & T. B. WEAVER.

WAREHOUSE TRUCK.

APPLICATION FILED DBG.6,1918,

Patented J an. 26, 1915.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.WILLIAM MAX BOENSCH AND TRUMAN IBELDEN WEAVER, OF SAN FRANCISCO,

. CALIFORNIA. i

WAREHOUSE-TRUCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 26, 1915.

Application filed December 6, 1913. a Serial No. 805,171.

To all whom it 121 (13 concern Be it known that i we, WILLIAM MAX Bonxson and TRUMAN BELDEN WEAVER, citizens of the United States, residing in thecity and county of San Francisco and State of California, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in VVarehouse-Trucks, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to elevating and conveying trucks and more particularly to a type of truck adapted for the handling and piling of rolls of paper in ware houses or other places of storage, and the invention has for its principal objects to provide a truck by the use of which the rough handling and rolling of the rolls of paper will be eliminated, one provided with an elevating framefor receiving and elevating the rolls for stacking, and one provided with ameans associated with the elevating frame, for tipping the roll thereon and retaining the same thereon while being elevated.

With the above mentioned and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the ac companying drawing and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction within the scope of the claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

To more fully comprehend the invention, reference is directed to the accompanying drawing, wherein- Figure '1 is a view in front elevation of my invention with the roll engaging means thrown into a vertical position. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation disclosing the supporting frame, the 'slidableframe mounted thereon, the roll engaging means mounted on the sliding frame, and the means for operating the roll engaging means and the sliding frame. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional. view of a truck with the nose of the sliding frame beneath a roll of paper and the roll engaging means over the topof the roll in a position to pull the same ontothe sliding frame.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, wherein like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several V18WS-1 indicates the side frame rearwardly inclined front guide faces 2, and

being connected in spaced relation with each" other by the top member 3, the back brace l, and the rearwardly curved lower brace 5. Supporting wheels 6 are mounted on axles .members of the supporting truck having 7 at the lower forward end of each side frame member and the axles are supported at their Slidably mounted on the front faces 2 of the side frames are ,the transverse memhers ll of the elevating frame or platform which are formed at their ends with hooked portions 12 which operate in the longitudinal grooves 13 formed in the outer side walls of the front faces 2 and maintain the elevating frame or platform in position. The transverse members 11 are connected by the upper end portions 15 of a nose 15, and are braced by the frame 16.

Projecting upwardly from the upper member 11 is a frame 16 to which is hinged, as at 17, theinner end of a guide bar 18 carrying adjacent its outer end longitudinally disposed headed bolts 19 which operate in elongated longitudinally disposed guides 20 formed in a slidable engaging member 21 which is formed at its outer end with an engaging lip 22 and carries at its inner end a suitable eye 23.

A flexible connection 24 is connected at one end to the eye 23 and is preferably spliced at its opposite end into a flexible connection 25 which is connected at one end to an eye 26-on the frame 16, and extends over a pulley 27 supported by the top member 3 and winds at its' opposite end about a drum 28 carried by a rotatable shaft 29 journaled in bearings 30 carried by the side frame members. The flexible connections are of such length that when the sliding frame or platform is in its lowermost position and the slidable engaging member is extended over the outer edge of the roll and the drum tightly position the roll on the is rotated to wind, that the the slidable engaging member will be drawn inwardly to When the device is to be used to engage a roll of paper and elevate the same to a position to be stacked upon another roll, the flexible cable is unwoun from the drum, permitting the sliding frame or platform to assume its lowermost position, which also permits the slidable engaging member to be extended its full length. he truck is now ositioned adjacent the roll to be elevated, and the roll is tipped slightly to permit the nose 15 to be forced under the roll, the engaging lip is positioned over the outer edge of the roll, as in Fig. 3, and the operator now operates the handle to wind the flexible connection on the drum, The wmdin of the flexible connection on the drum first causes the engaging member to be drawn inwardly which will draw the roll onto the frame and the same is supported thereon by members and the nose 15 and the engaging member 21 and lip 22. Further winding of the connection about the drum will cause an upwar pull on the elevating frame or platform, and the same together with the roll will be elevated relative to the truck frame, and after the frame has been elevated to the proper height, the truck carrying the roll is pushed up to a positioned roll and the spaced side frame the rearwardly curved lower brace member will permit the truck frame to be advanced relative to the lowermost roll so that i the elevated roll may be positioned thereover the lip and when the elevated roll is so positioned, of the engaging member is disengaged from the elevated roll by forcing the g member upwardly with a sharp beneath, which willpermit the elevated roll to rest on the upper end of the lower roll.

It'will be apparent that by employing a structure as above described, the piling of the rolls will be expedited over the method now in use of rolling the same up an incline, that the damage to the rolls over the present method of piling will be overcome, and a greater number of rolls may be piled with fewer operators than are required to roll a single roll up the incline to pile the same by the 1present method.

1- aving thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is 1. A truck comprising a vertically extending frame provided with inclined guides, a supporting platform movable along said guides, means for raising and lowering said platform, devices operatively associated with said means for holding the articles to be supported in position relative to the platform,

said platform raising means actuating said device in advance of the raising of the platform.

2. A truck comprising a frame provided with upwardly extended rearwardly inclined guides, a supporting platform movably mounted thereon, mechanism within the frame for raising and lowering the said platform, and means associated with said mechanism and operated thereby for engaging the upper edge portion of the article to be transported and swinging the same toward the supporting platform, said means participating in the movement of said platform.

3. A warehouse truck comprising a vertically extended frame provided with inclined guides, a supporting platform movably mounted thereon, mechanism within the frame for raising and lowering said platform, manually operated means carried by the platform and operated by said mechanism for engaging the upper edge portion of the article to be transported and for retaining the same in position thereon during the movement of said platform, the article engaging means acting in advance of the movement of the platform. 7

4. A truck comprising a frame provided with upwardly extended guides, a supporting platform movably mounted thereon, and mechanism within the frame for raising and lowering said platform, a guide hinged to said platform, article engaging means slidable on said guide for engaging the upper edge portion of the article to be transported, and connections associated with said frame operating mechanism for operating said article engaging means to swing the article toward the supporting platform.

5. A ware-house truck comprising a frame provided with upwardly extended rearwardly inclined guides, a supporting platform movably mounted thereon, mechanism within the frame for raising and lowering said platform, a guide hinged to said platform, article engaging means slidable on said guide for engaging the'upper edge portion of the article to be transported, and connections associated with said frame operating mechanism for operating said article engaging means to swing the article toward the supporting platform.

6. A ware-house truckcomprising a frame rovided with upwardly extended rearwardly inclined guides,

a supporting plat- ISI ' rotation of said drum,

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form movably mounted thereon, a guide hinged to said platform, article engaging means slidable on said guide for engaging the upper edge portion of the article to be transported, a drum rotatably mounted on the frame, means for operating said drum, a

connection between said drum and platform for raising and lowering the same on the and a connection between said last mentioned connection and means for operating said article engaging the same to swing the article toward the supporting platform.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of 15 two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM MAX BOEN SCH. TRUMAN BELDEN WEAVER.

Witnesses:

HARRY G. TN, D. B. RICHARDS. 

